Conor McGregor Calls Several Dagestani UFC Fighters 'Dirty Smelly Rats' In Deleted Tweet
For the second time in recent memory, Conor McGregor took shots at Dagestani rivals on Twitter before apparently thinking better of it and deleting the tweet in question.
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A Twitter account by the name of “MMA Team Dagestan” listed several Dagestani fighters they claimed to be projected to appear on the card, including Islam Makhachev, Zubaira Tukhugov and Mairbek Taisumov.
Fighters that are expected to perform at #UFC242:
— MMA TEAM DAGESTAN (@MMATeamDagestan) May 5, 2019
Khabib Nurmagomedov
Islam Makhachev
Zubaira Tukhugov
Abubakar Nurmagomedov
Mairbek Taisumov
Zelim Imadaev #UFCAbuDhabi pic.twitter.com/CDRggUtOwA
The tweet elicited a reply from former UFC lightweight and featherweight champ McGregor who went onto Twitter and blasted several fighters on that list over their past use of performance-enhancing drugs before swiftly deleting the message (h/t to Bloody Elbow for the screen capture).
“Team Meldonium,” McGregor wrote. “3 on this list caught on performance enhancers in the past already. Islam, zubaira and Mairbek. Dirty smelly rats all of them.”
McGregor has a well-publicized history with a number of these fighters as he clashed with them during the brawl that broke out at after his fight against Nurmagomedov at UFC 229 last October.
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